Lord John Russellsaid, that the right hon. Baronet, the Chancellor of the Exchequer having asked him the other day as to whether he would give him an outline of the Motion which he (Lord John Russell) meant to make on Monday next, the answer which he would then make was, that he was not prepared to pledge himself to any particular words, or not to vary the terms in which he declared his intention to move; but his present intention was, to move that the House should resolve itself into a Committee, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of applying any of the surplus revenues of the Church of Ireland not required for the spiritual care of the Members of that Church, to the religious and moral instruction of all classes of the community.
The Chancellor of the ExchequerMay I ask the noble Lord, supposing the House should accede to his proposition, will he be prepared to produce a practical plan by which he will make that appropriation?
Lord John RussellI do not feel myself bound to answer the question of the right hon. Baronet. When the House shall have resolved itself into a Committee 314 on Monday next, I shall then know what course I ought to take.
§ Mr. Finchbegged to ask the noble Lord whether, by "religious instruction," he meant to include the religious instruction of the Roman Catholics of Ireland in the principles of the Roman Catholic religion?
§ No answer was given.